In the current 2014 Iditarod race Aliy Zirkle is in 2nd place behind Jeff King and Dallas Seavey behind her.  n the 9th day of the Iditarod hopefully Aliy can pull ahead of King, they have both taken their required breaks and nothing is holding them back with an all out sprint race to see who will become the Iditarod champion. Aliy entered checkpoint White Mountain with a time of 7 hours 59 minutes, only 57 minutes behind Jeff King and unfortunately one less dog than King who has 12.
It seems that it will turn out to be a race between the two of them, as they have outpaced their closest competitors. The White Mountain checkpoint is only 77 miles from Nome the finish line of the 1,000 mile Iditarod.